Monday, June 20, 2011

For the last two days, I've been awakened sometime between 6:00 and 6:30 by a mockingbird. My neighbor across the street wants to shoot it, but I really like it and don't mind being awakened so early by the beautiful song (and it's light outside, anyway). I love how in the animal kingdom, males have to strut their stuff in order to get a mate, and the mockingbird certainly has developed an attractive lure.

The song of the one hanging out in our neck of the woods is extremely long. I don't hear any of the sounds other people report, though -- cell phones ringing, car alarms, etc. It's just beautiful bird calls, on and on.

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Elise Ann Wormuth

I am a retired college English professor who has reinvented herself as a fine art photographer, watercolor painter, and genealogist (among other things). I've spent my working life teaching other people to write, and now I will take some time to get back to writing myself.